On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: > > hi, > > I have been commissioned to create and implement a course (compulsory with 2 > credits for first semester) on computer programming for business managers for > MBA's in a new B school that is starting up. I envisage something like the > nltk tutorial. Ideas and suggestions please. I will, of course, develop the > course in a mercurial repo, but that is the future. The idea is that this > should become a standard cp-101 for business schools.
What's the intention of the course? The structure of the course would depend on that methinks. Is it to - Give the students some programming skills so that they can use them if needed for their actual work. - Appreciate the finer subtleties of what goes on during programming so that they can become better managers/decision makers. The latter would be considerably harder and it wouldn't really be CP-101. For the former, I think a basic language introduction (say 1/4th of the course) followed by intense exercise driven training on 'useful' things would be nice. Similar to Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the hard way" (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/). The exercises should be complex enough to force the people to make some design decisions so that they learn to "program". Too often, fibonacci number programs are considered good examples and that totally cripples someone trying to study the language. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
